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Federal investigators are probing a connection between Fort Hood rampage suspect Nidal Malik Hasan and the Muslim imam who was spiritual adviser to two 9/11 terrorists. Hasan attended the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in northern Virginia in 2001 when it was led by Anwar al-Aulaqi. The US-born imam, who now lives in Yemen, is a major supporter of Al Qaeda. Hasan "connections to Aulaqi would be problematic on many levels," said a counter-terrorism official, who called the imam "a radicalizer of the first order."

It's not yet clear how well Hasan may have known Aulaqi. Investigators say they are still operating on the theory that Hasan acted alone when he shot dead 13 at Fort Hood. But they are continuing to investigate his associates and the radical Islamist web sites he visited. "There's a massive effort here to look at the web sites," a law enforcement official told the Washington Post. "The jury's still out on motivation."

@Philly - Here's a list of Christian terrorist groups for ya....you can do the rest of the research on them, if you care to: Army of God, Christian Identity aka The Order, Aryan Nations, Aryan REPUBLICAN Army, Eric Rudolph, Phineas Priesthood, The Covenant, The Sword & The Arm of the Lord (sounds like a Christian rap song title), Christian Patriots, Lambs of Christ and Concerned Christians.

Doctor-Zaius

Nov 9, 2009 12:07 PM CST

I have no problem with the military and FBI investigating these links. However reporting it at this point without any proof one way or another is irresponsible journalism. The last thing we need to do is jump to conclusions Ala George W Bush/Dick Cheney/Iraq War.

Nwambe

Nov 9, 2009 12:00 PM CST

Just like that connection - Tenuously, spuriously, and more and more out of a sense of panic and a belief that there must be order in this chaos. The military needs to realize that there are people for whom war is a frightening thing, there are people who get fucked up over it. Instead of chanting macho bravura and trying to cover it over, dealing with it would be the first step. Let's hope this is the Army's wake-up call. How come there are so few stories about the Florida shooter? Oh, right, he's not Muslim. Forgot.